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Govt raises health budget to Rp214.95 trillion

The Indonesian government has decided to increase the health budget under the national economic recovery (PEN) program ...

Accurate social aid recipients' data to accelerate distribution: CORE

Availability of accurate data on social aid recipients will speed up the distribution of the aid, Indonesia's ...

Expert presses for maximizing efforts to battle COVID-19 pandemic

Prof. Tjandra Yoga Aditama from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, underscored that efforts to handle ...

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Foreign aid starts arriving to help Indonesia fight COVID surge

With Indonesia recording an exponential increase in COVID-19 cases, several countries have stepped in to provide ...

Make a habit of wearing masks, TNI chief urges citizens

Indonesian Military (TNI) commander, Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, on Saturday urged Indonesians to form a habit of ...

Military chief explains free COVID drug delivery mechanism

Free COVID-19 medicine packages announced by the government would be delivered to patients in self-isolation who are ...

Health Ministry to procure 50 million doses of Pfizer vaccine

The Indonesian Health Ministry, along with PT Pfizer Indonesia and BioNTech SE, agreed to cooperate in providing 50 ...

Jokowi presses for supervision during distribution of COVID-19 drugs

President Joko Widodo has instructed his ranks to firmly supervise the distribution of free COVID-19 therapy drugs to ...

Indonesia's COVID-19 handling to impact investor sentiment: minister

Indonesia's COVID-19 handling efforts will be among the factors considered by investors to continue to invest in ...

BEM-Polri vaccination drive targets 1,566 students

As many as 30 student executive boards (BEM) from seven BEM alliances collaborated with the Indonesian Police (Polri) ...

91.9% COVID-19 cases in Jakarta undetected in survey: UI

As many as 91.9 percent of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta went undetected in a survey conducted by the pandemic team from ...

UI epidemiologist presses for expediting COVID-19 handling in Jakarta

An epidemiologist at the Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia (FKM-UI) Pandu Riono, at a discussion ...

Indonesia sets Sinopharm complete vaccination price at Rp879,140

The government has set the price for Sinopharm complete vaccination at Rp879,140 per person,Spokesperson of the Health ...

Need to vaccinate 50% Jakartans to build herd immunity: Governor

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has said that 50 percent of Jakarta residents need to be vaccinated against the ...

Possible for Indonesia to regain upper-middle income status: official

Indonesia can return to its upper middle-income status in one to two years, if annual economic growth reaches 5-6 ...